CHLD 54C: LEADERSHIP IN ACTION: HOW EFFECTIVE DIRECTORS GET THINGS DONE
Foothill College Course Outline of Record
Heading | Value |
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Effective Term: | Summer 2022 |
Units: | 1 |
Hours: | 1 lecture per week (12 total per quarter) |
Degree & Credit Status: | Degree-Applicable Credit Course |
Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
Transferable: | CSU |
Grade Type: | Letter Grade Only |
Repeatability: | Not Repeatable |
Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding of the skills and competencies required for effective leadership
- Identify the values and beliefs that shape leadership behavior
Description
Course provides an overview of educational leadership from five perspectives: leadership as a role, leadership tasks and functions, leadership as a repertoire of skills and competencies, leadership traits and dispositions, and leadership style. Course examines the link between effective leadership and program quality.
Course Objectives
The student will be able to:
- demonstrate understanding of the skills and competencies required for effective leadership
- identify the values and beliefs that shape leadership behavior
- assess leadership style
- use role authority and role influence to empower and support others in positive ways
Course Content
- Demonstrate understanding of the skills and competencies required for effective leadership
- Roles
- Tasks and functions
- Skills and competencies
- Traits and dispositions
- Personal style
- Identify the values and beliefs that shape leadership behavior
- Leadership as the exercise of influence
- Leadership as expression of values
- Assessing leadership style
- Traits that define specific leadership style
- Assessing leadership effectiveness
- Using role authority and role influence to empower and support others in positive ways
- Personal code of ethics
- Promoting leadership capacity at all levels of the organization
Lab Content
Not applicable.
Special Facilities and/or Equipment
When taught via Foothill Global Access: on-going access to computer with JavaScript-enabled internet browsing software, media plug-ins, and relevant computer applications.
Method(s) of Evaluation
Methods of Evaluation may include but are not limited to the following:
Oral presentations
Contributions to class discussions
Cooperative learning assignments
Creative writing
Method(s) of Instruction
Methods of Instruction may include but are not limited to the following:
Lecture presentations and classroom discussion
Group presentations followed by in-class discussions and evaluation
Representative Text(s) and Other Materials
Bloom, Paula Jorde. Leadership in Action: How Effective Directors Get Things Done, 2nd ed.. 2014.
Text is the basis for the course and is the newest edition; it remains relevant.
Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing, and Outside of Class Assignments
- Reading and study of the text
- Reaction writing assignments to lecture and activities conducted in class
Discipline(s)
Child Development/Early Childhood Education